Machine for assembling bottle-closures or like articles.



s. 0. 30M), MACHINE FOB ASSEMBLING BOTTLE GLOSUBES 0R LIKE ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1912.

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S. C. BOND MACHINE FOR ASSEMBLING BOTTLE. CLOSURES OR LIKE ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12. 1912.

Pa tented June 3, 1913.

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WITESSES 's. 0. BOND. MAOHNB FOR ASSEMBLING BOTTLE GLOSURBS 0R LIKE ARTICLES.

APPLICATION 11.31) MAR-.12, 1912.

1,063,324, I Patented June 3, 1913.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1912. 1,063,324. Patented June 3, 1913.

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SAMUEL G. BOND, 0F HOLLYOAK, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOE. TO BOND LBGTTLE SEALING COMPANY, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, A. CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

MACHINE FOR ASSEMBLING BOTTLE-CLOSURES 0R- ILIKE ARTICLES.

Application fiIeti March 12, 1912. Serial E0. 683,258. R

ElSSUliTJ Specification of Letters Patent.

new and uselnl improvements in ivlaehines I for Assembling Bottle-Closures or Like Ar lieles. ot' whieh the Following is a specificalion.

.ll v invention relates to improvements in ma -hints for assembling the several parts ot a bottle elosnre, or similar artit'le. said parts ensisting usually of a melallie eap. a sealing- 'tsl el or paelting, and a eementin; medium nterposed between the (tip and e'aslv'ei. anti tne objeet. of my invention is to 'l't ish an inmrovetl maehine for aeeom-- pli hiue' this end in an expeditions eeonomieal and stlllfil ut'lttt' Y manner.

In the at-eompatrying drawings forming part ol' this spm-ilieation and in whit-h similar letters o'l' rel'erenee intliea'te similar parts throughout the several views l ignre l. is a plan of ltl improved elosnre assembling maehiue; Fig. 2, a front elevation ot the maehine: Fig. 3. a set-lion of Fig. 1 on line A A: Fin. -l.'a verti al seeti nal elevation tlllttlfill the pnnt'h for (tilting the fusible disks used to eenient the gasket to the metal rap showing. in set-lion. the rolls for guiding and tor feeding the strip of material from \\'llltll said tll. s are punehed and the roll for eat-twine away said strip after being pnnrhed: l 5. a seelion on line H-B. Fig. t: Fig ii. a plan ot ('ltVlt't. for rendering the pnneh intnierative when the rap earrier fails to entry a eap lo a point beneath said puneh: Fig. 7. a. side elevation of part. of l ie'. (3: Fig. 5%. an end elevation of the frontend ollhe maehine: Fig. 9, an end elevation of the rear end of the machine: Fig. 10, a planel' (am for operating pnneh for cutting tusible disks: Fig. 11. a plan ot gasket t'eed ine' tlislc and ol part otnotcheddish for holding: gasket: Fig. 12. a bottom view of eam 'l'or aetnatiier the lingers of Qasltet earv \'in disk: l ig'. til. it s lo elevation of a linger earrietl lJ Y gasket t'tttt' \'lll dish.

lv tnaehine eonsists ot' a tee-(ling tleviee for earrvingr the metal raps ol the t-losnre to a eot-slanllv rotating wheel or table; of a means for platinga dish eat-twine. or eon- .--i -lin ot. a 'l' usilile tententing medium in raid raps while earried b v said wheel ora mg earned by the rapidly table without retarding its revti lution. ol

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means tor transferring said caps carrying the cementing medium from said first wheel to a seeond rotating wheel or table, in heat ing' said eaps While in said second Wheel snfiieiently to fuse the cementing material, in transferring said caps while still hotto a third rotating wheel or table, in placing in said raps. over the fused cementing niasaid third wheel a gasket, in applying pressure to the tops of said gasket while being earried around in said third wheel and finally in removing said eaps 'l'rom said third wheel after the gaskets have been seemed to said caps by the cementing material.

1 is the frame of my maehine which has a flat. top 2.

3 is the main driving sha'li't furnished with some means for driving, the usual fast and loose driving pulleys 4 5 for instance. l'pon shaft. 3 is a miter gear ('3 which meshes with and drives a miter gear 7 which earries and drives a sleeve 8 which carries a spur gear I). The gear 7 anti sleeve 8 are earrietl by a stud 10 which is t rried by the table top 2. .I'ilhe. gear 9 meshes with and drives a gear wheel 11 the hub 0t which carriesa gear wheel 12. 13 a stud. earried by table top 2. upon which gear 11 is earrietl. Gear 12 meshes with and drives a gear ll which meshes with and drives a gea 15 which meshes with and drives a gear 16. All of these gears being shown best in Figs. 2 and 3. The gears let, it") and 16 are all of the same diameter and all rotate at the same speed.

17 is a flanged pulley earried on shaft". 3 whit-h is eonneeted by a belt 18 with a horizontally disposed pulley ll) whieh is attaehed to a suitably earrietl vertieal shalt 2t) the upper end of Wlllt'll earries a revolvingteed disk "21 the top of whieh is eoveretl. or partly eovered. by a rover plate}? in the usual manner. The feed tlisk 21} is driveln at a high speed. The empll eaps are plat-oil upon a teeding' table 553 and pass in between the eover plate and the top of the ltt'lllling tee' disk 2t and are earrietl to a want ing wheel or table whieh is earried upon the upper end ot shaft '25 whieh earries and is driven by the gear wheel ltt belore referred to. The arrangement and operation of the teed disk 21, being: well known, will not need detailed (leseriplion. The eaps berevolving disk 21 to the pockets 26 in the periphery of the more slowly-moving wheel 24 are carried around in these pockets and presently pass under a punch 27, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7' and 8, which cuts from a-strip of fusible material a 'disk and places this disk in successive caps Figs.

the punch plunger 34 which operates 'verti-"= cally in a guide 35 which is carried by a frame 36 carried by the table top 2 as best shown in .Fig. 4. The male part of the punch is carried or formed by the lower end of plunger 34, and the female part 37 by the frame 36. The male part of the punch being substantially of the same diameter as the interior of the metal cap, and these ca s being carried around under the punch y the constantly moving wheel 24, it would be ractically impossible to employ the punch iltself tocarrythe unched disk to the interior of the cap as t e latter would certainly .enga e the side of the former before it coul .be withdrawn. In order that. the

- punched disk may be placed in the cap withbut danger of improper contact of any of the parts of the machine, I bore out the lower part of punch lunger 34 and place loosely therein a fee'ing rod 38 which is slotted at 39 for a pin 40 which limits its vertical movement. The rod 38 is supported 'by'the strip of fusible material. before it is punched but as soon as the punch cuts a disk,

' the rod 38, resting on this unsupported disk,

drops and by its weight carries the disk to the cap. The disk having been placed in the cap, the cam 28 lifts the rod 29 and con.

nected parts until. the lower end of rod 38 is above the level of the strip of fusible material when'the mechanism feedingthis to the unch presently carries it under the punc when this latter is again operated.

-. At this time the Wheel 24 has carried another cap under the punch and the operation above described is repeated.

' It maysometimes happen that one of the pockets of the wheel 24 willpass the feed mg plate without receiving a cap and in this event it is important that the punch 27 fail to operate, for if it did the fusible disk would-drop into the pocket and would probably adhere to the outer side of a cap subsequently carried by this pocket and would cause trouble when the cap was heated. In order to prevent the operation of the punchand the cutting of a fusible disk for an unoc- If it should happen that a pocket does not. carry a cap the outer end of finger 41, when it reaches this capless pocket, will be unsupported and a spring 47 will ull'the outer end of arm 43 in between t e top of the guide 32 and the arm 33, carried by the top of cam rod 29, and will prevent the falling of arm 33 and the operation of the punch to cut a disk for the particular pocket of the Wheel unoccupied b av cap. As the wheel revolves the end of nger 41 is presently engaged and moved out by the partition at the rear side. ofthe unoccupied. pocket and moves the stop 44 out from under arm 33 when the mechanismactuating the punch again is free to operate.

' I prefer to form the disk of fusible mate rial, whichis'to cement the capand gasket together, from a narrow strip of the material. I- carry this strip upon a roll 48, Figs. 1, 4, and 8. From roll .48 the strip passes down under a guide roll 49, thence between drawing rolls 50-51, under the punch,.and over a driven roll. The drawing rollsare connected by gears 52-53 and the shaft of one of these rolls cariies'a bevel gear 54w, which is driven by a bevel car 55 which is carried on a shaft 56 whic carries a-spur gear 57 whichmesheswith and is driven by the s ur gear 16 which drives the [wheel 24. The eedin of the strip 58 of fusible material from W ich the disks are cut is constant and when the punch is in contact with this strip it is moving forward and buckles up between the feed rollers 50-51 and the punch but there being some considerable stiffness in this strip it straightens out as soon as released bythe punch being lifted and no harm results. After leaving the punch the then perforated strip passes over a roller 59, which I prefer should be positively driven at a considerable speed, to assist the passage of the perforated strip away from the punch. To drive roller 59 I place uponits :shaft a pulley 60 and connect this pulley to a pulley 61, carried by the mainshaft 3,

by a, belt 62. The caps having the fusible disks placed in them are carried around by the wheel 24 until presently, one at a time, their edges projecting up above the top of the wheel, are engaged by a shifter 65, which i is simplya flat piece of metal which is placed tangentially to the inner side of the pockets 26 as shown in Fig. 1. The rotation of wheel 24 moves the caps along the shifter 65 until they enter pockets 66 formed in pc riphery of wheel (37 which is carried on' and driven by shaft (38 of gear wheel at the same speed as Wheel 24. Beneath the wheel 67 is a heating device to fuse the disks in the metal caps; the heat being preferably applied to the under side of the wheel, and in order that the heat may reach the caps the botton'i's of pockets 66 are perforated as shown at (23. Fig. 1. I prefer to use gas as the heating agent which is conducted to any suitable form of burner by a pipe 69.

64 is a pipe for a pilot light which burns when the main. burner is turned out. As this construction is old it will not need elabtn'atien.

Heat from the wheel (37, or the burners for heating this wheel, is very apt to be carried to the wheel 24, where it is not wanted, and erhaps to the punch, where, owing to the nature of the fusible material, it would be fatal, and in order that this Wheel and punch may be kept'cool I place under the wheel a tank 70 which is kept supplied with cool water and I furnish the under side of the wheel 24: with a flange 71 which enters the water in tank 70. This arrangement 1 find sufficient to prevent danger of heating parts which should be kept cool. The caps having been heated and the disks fused while in wheel (37 are, when, this wheel in its revolution brings them to a shifter 72, similar in arrangement and 0peraticn to shifter 65, switched from pockets in wheel (37 to pockets in a wheel 7'3 where they receive the gaskets and where pressure is applied to the top of the gaskets until their adhering to the caps is assured. The wheel 73 is carried upon the shaft- 74 which carries the gear 14 and driven by the rotation of this gear at the same speed as the wheels 21- and 67. Beneath the wheel 73 and fast to and driven by shaft 7-l, which carries and drives this wheel, is a gear 75 which meshes with and drives a gear wheel 76. Fig. which is fast to a sleeve 77 which rotates around 'a. spindle 78 prir-jecting up vertically from table top Fast. to top of sleeve 77 is a plate 79 the periphery of which is furnisllwd with pockets 80 and with radial slots til fin" carrying lingers 82 whi h are furnished with upwardly -1 irojccting pins 83% which rest in a rain 5, 0031' at formed in a stationary casting h'fi which is carried by the 'l'ran'ic 86, carried by plate 2, see Figs. 51 ii and t2. As the plate 7!) re valves it causes the pins R3 on the lingers 8.4 to travel around in the can. groove {it and the fingers are thereby moved in and out l t slots St in plate 79. .livoted to the ccnter of the casting 5 is an arm 8.7. Figs. 1 5 and ll. whirl 'rics a tube r ft which carries a Stilt,

k u circular disks sition the tut 88 registers with a perform -f gaskets. in most cases thin of cork. in its operative potion 89in a plate 90 which covers the outer part of the plate 79 and with the pockets in the periphery of plate 79 when these pockets are by the. revolution of the plate brought successively beneath it. The plate 7 9 is carried in a depression formed in the top of frame 86, this depression being of somewhat greater diameter than the plate and forming a runway 91 for the disks or gaskets as they are carried from the tube 88 to the caps. The arm 87 may be'moved around its center and over the plate, so as to move the tube 8b out of register with the i'ierforation St in plate 90 when it is desired to cut oil the feeding of the gaskets to the plate 79. The arm is furnished with a perforation 92 which may be brought in register with perforation 89 when it is de sired to have access to this latter perforation for any purpose. In Fig. 1] a plan of the plate 79 is shown and from this figure the positions of the several fingers 82 in re lation to the runway 91 will be seen. These fingers. not only push the gasket along the runway but also sweep this runway clean during their passage of any particles of cork or other material which might. presently interfere with the proper working of this part of the machine. The plate 79 and the fingers 82 carry the gaskets around until the pockets S0 in this plate are directly opposite pockets 93 which are carried in a. circular plate 94: which substantially engage plate 79 and which is carried by and turns with the shaft '74 which is driven by gear 14 which drives the wheel 73 which carries the caps to receive the gaskets. The pockets 93, in plate 94, which are semi-ciri'ular, are placed directly over the pockets in wheel 73 and when the pockets in plates 79 and D4 are in register the gasket is held betweenthcm being half grasped by each one. The plates 79 and SH are at a somewhat higher lei'el than the tops of the caps carried in vwheel 73 and when the pockets in plates 79 and ill are in register the gasket is engagcd by a plunge and driven out from be tween these plates to a cap as follows.

arried by the shaft 74- is a headllsi, best shown in Fig. 5, which is furnished with as many vertical guides ho as there are pockets in the wheel 7; paeh pocket hayin; a guide directly over Each placket carries aplungel 97 and a s rint;- be ton forcing said plunger downward. in its lowest position the lower end of a plunger bears againstthe lop of a gasl-cet and holds it against lhadisk'.

of fused material carried in a cap.b-ut,should there be no gasket Ill the cap, the lower end of the phone 11" will not-tall suflicien'tly.far

n I stu-u v materialadhering to it would cause I l l I 1 no end of trouble until removed. The fall of the plnngersis regulated by a. hardened steel collar 99 interposed between the tops to touch the fused material. ii lt ftl ltl t s r of the guides 96 and a collar 100 carried on I said gasket in said cap until said cementing the upper end of the plungers.-

101 is a stationary semi-circular cam at the top of head 95 the front end of which is beveled, as at 102, and the rear end of which is abrupt, as at 103. As the casting 95 is revolved the collars 100 on the plungers 97 are brought successively to the beveled front end 102 of cam ride up this bevel, which lifts the plungers from the Y gasket in the cap, and travel along the flat top of the cam until they reach the abrupt I end 103 when they are dropped. At the point where theplungers are dropped they are directly overthe gasket carried by the plates 79 and 94 and' the falling plunger drives them out from" between these plates and seats them upon the fused cementing disk carried by the hot caps carried in the pockets inwheel 73. The plungers having driven the gaskets to the" caps remain in contact with and press them down until the revolution of the machine brings the collars 100 to the beveled front end of cam ring 101 which lifts the plungers as before described and holds them above the caps so long as the collars 100 are in contact with ring-cam 101. During this time the caps are removed from wheel 73. The plungers are held in pressing contact with the gaskets a sufiicient time to insure the cementing medium' setting sufficiently to secure the gaskets to the cap; After the plungers are lifted by the cam ring 101 out of contact with the assembled closures the latter are engaged by a shifter 104:, precisely similar in construction and operation to the shifters 65 and 72, previously described, which re moves them from the pockets in wheel 73 and guides them to an inclined guide 105, Fig.- 5, which directs them to some sort of a receptacle which is not shown.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In .a machine for assembling a bottle closure which comprises a cap, a gasket,

and a fusible cement-ingmaterial between said cap and gasket, in combination a means for cuttin and a means forplacing-in the cap a dis of fusible cementing material while the cap is being continuouslymoved second carrier, a third continuously moving carrier to which said heated cap is transferred from said second carrier, means for effecting raid transfer, a means for carrying a gasket to said cap while in said third carrier, and a plunger for pressing and holding I material is set.

2. In a machinefor assembling a bottle closure, comprising a cap, a gasket, and fusible cementing material interposed between said' cap and gasket, in combination, a continuously rotating pocketed wheel for carrying a cap containing the cementing material, a peripherally notched disk above and rotating with said cap carrying wheel, the notches in said disk registering with the pockets in said wheel, aperipherally notched and radially slotted gasket feeding disk, a race in which said gasket feeding disk turns, longitudinally movable fingers carried by the slots in said gasket feedin disk, a cam for directing the movements 0% said fingers, plungers rotating with said cap carrying wheel adapted to drive a gasket out between the notches in said notched disks to a cap and to press upon said gasket until the cementing material is set, and a means for carrying and a means for operating said plungers.

3. In a mechanism for assembling and pressing together the several members of a bottle or like closure, in combination, a traveling head, a multiplicity of plungers carried by said head, a cap carrier vtraveling with said head, means for elevating and depressing said plungers, and a means operating in connection with said head for limiting the downwardmovement of said plungers.

4. In a mechanism for assembling and pressing together the several members of a bottle-or like closure, in combination, a rotating head, a multiplicity of plungers concentrically carried by said head, a cap carrier traveling with said head, means for elevating and depressing said plungers, and a means operating in connection with said head for limiting the downward movement of said plungers. r

5. In a, mechanism for assembling and prgssing together the several members 'of a ho tle or like closure, in. combination, a rotating head, a multiplicity of plungers concentrically carried by said head, a cap carrier traveling with said head, springs for depressing said plungers, a cam-ring for lifting, holding, and releasing said plungers,

and a means operating in connection, with means for lifting and means for depressing said plunger, and a means carried by said plunger and operating in connection With said head for limiting its downward movement.

T. In combination, a continuously rot-ating cap carrying Wheel, a head rotating with said Wheel, movable plungers carrying collars carried concentrically by said head,

syn-lugs for depressing said plungers, a cam ring for engaging said collars. and lifting said plungers,and a stop for preventing said plunger-s from engaging said cap carrying wheel.

8.111 a machine of the character described, in combination, a constantly rotating cap carrying Wheel and a means .for punching a disk from a strip of fusible material and for simultaneously plac ng said disk in a cap carried by said heel. I the character described,

.9. In a machine OI in combination, a punch, a constantly mov-. ing cap carrying means-adapted tobring successive caps of substantially the same diameter as said punch into register with.

it, and a means, operating in connection with said punch, for carrying a disk cut by 'said punch into a cap carried by said carry- 10.. In a machine of the character set forth, in combix 43011, a punch, a cam actuat'ed means for ting and a spring for depressing said punch. a cap carrying means for bringing caps successively int-o register with said'punch, a gag for rendering said I punch inoperative, and means operated by contact with a cap while in said cap carrying means for holding said gag in an inoperative position.

11. In a machine of the character set forth, in combinatioma reciprocating punch, a cam actuated means for elevating and a spring for depressing said punch, a cap. carrying means for bringing caps successively into register with said punch, anda means punch.

actuated by engagement with a cap While in said cap carrying means for permitting said spring to operatively actuate said 12. In a machine of the character set forth, in combination, apunch, an arm, a

means for bringing caps successivelyin-to register with said punch, a-stop or gag, an

arm carrying said stop or gag, a shaft carry ng said arm, ,bearmgs for sald shaft,; a

finger carried by said shaft adapted to be engaged by a cap carried by said cap carrying means to keep said stop or gag in an inoperative position, and a spring adapted to more said stop or gag into position to arrest the operative movement of said punch when said finger is out of engagement with a- 'cap..

14. In a machine. of the character set forth, in combination, means for inserting cementing material in a cap, means for heatmg and fusing said material while in said cap, means for registering a sealing gasket with said cap,-means for forcing said gasket 1nto contact wlth said fused cementing material, means for maintaining said contact until said cementing material is set, and

continuously moving carrying means for bringing the cap in succession to all of said means.

SAMUEL, O. BOND.

Witnesses ARTHUR H. G. GAnRE'r r, WALTER H. MATsoN. 

